cavalier
see also: Cavalier
Pronunciation
Cavalier
Proper noun
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see also: Cavalier
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌkævəˈlɪəɹ/
cavalier
- Not caring enough about something important.
- 2012, Barbara Seaman, Laura Eldridge, Voices of the Women's Health Movement (volume 1)
- Such a cavalier attitude might seem to suggest that doctors consider the uterus as dispensable an organ as, say, an appendix—and some feminists have accused the medical profession of just such callousness […]
- 2012, Barbara Seaman, Laura Eldridge, Voices of the Women's Health Movement (volume 1)
- High-spirited.
- Supercilious.
- Synonyms: haughty, disdainful, curt, brusque
- (historical) Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I of England (1600–1649).
- French: nonchalant
- Italian: noncurante
- Russian: ре́звый
- French: cavalier
- Russian: надме́нный
cavalier (plural cavaliers)
- (historical) A military man serving on horse, (chiefly) early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights.
- (historical) A gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man.
- A gentleman of the class of such officers, particularly:
- (slang) Someone with an uncircumcised penis.
- Antonyms: roundhead
- (architecture) A defensive work rising from a bastion, etc., and overlooking the surrounding area.
- French: cavalier
- German: Kavalier
- Portuguese: cavalheiro
- Russian: кавале́р
- Spanish: caballero
cavalier (cavaliers, present participle cavaliering; past and past participle cavaliered)
- (transitive, dated) Of a man: to act in a gallant and dashing manner toward (women).
- 1863, Charles Cowden Clarke, Shakespeare-characters; Chiefly Those Subordinate (page 427)
- His social and kind nature is inferred from his cavaliering the ladies Percy and Mortimer, and introducing them, before their husbands depart for the war.
- 1916, Good Housekeeping (volume 64, page 113)
- "I thought," Graeme burred at him, transfixing him with shrewd eyes, "that you were cavaliering the Italian girl, Beatrice Cenci or Vittoria Colonna or whatever her name is?"
- 1863, Charles Cowden Clarke, Shakespeare-characters; Chiefly Those Subordinate (page 427)
Cavalier
Proper noun
- A small city/county seat in Pembina County, North Dakota.
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